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Normal vs. Millikin
at Decatur Saturday
THE DECATURIAN
Hear the Welsh
Chorus Monday
Volume XX—No. 10
The James MiUikin University, Decatur, Illinois, November 15, 1923
Price $2.00 a Year
Millikin Given Six Delegates For Conference
Quadrennial Convention of Student Volunteer Movement Held in Indianapolis During Dec.
The Ninth International Conven¬ tion of the Student Volunteer Move- nicnt which will be held at the Cadle Tabernacle, Indianapolis, Indiana, bc- crinning on Friday afternoon, Decem¬ ber 28, 1923 at 2:30 p. m., and closing on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1924, will be attended by a delegation of six or seven students from Milli¬ kin. These delegates will be chosen ill a mass meeting of students to be held in the near future.
The conference, an international af¬ fair, drawing students and noted men and women from all over the world, occurs only once in a student genera¬ tion—every four years. Irma Voight, (lean of women at the University of Ohio, prominent in the Y. W. C. A., states that it is the experience of a student's life time. Millikin is having trouble restricting her delegation to six, the number allotted to her. Previous Conventions The first convention was held in Cleveland in 1891 with 680 delegates representing 51 institutions in attend¬ ance. In the seven sul)sequent con¬ ventions the movement increased in power and size until at the last con¬ vention held in 1920 at Des Moines, 6,890 delegates were present represent¬ ing 949 institutions.
Purpose of Conventions The purpose of the convention is to emphasize the solidarity of mankind and the interdependence of all nations and races; to present Christ as the hope of the race, demonstrated I)y the transformation wrought in individual (Continued on page 6)
Poster Thefts Rouse Ire of Poster Union
Stealing of University Posters Will Not Be Tolerated—Strike Threatened
Indignant over the poster vandalism which exists in the university the pos¬ ter union has thnatencd to strike.
Posters cost in money and time. TIil' abduction of posters, which some peo¬ ple think is a clever trick, is plain, downright stealing. Who has a high opinion of the person who goes the I'ounds of coat pockets in the locker rooms, taking what loose change he can find? No one! The poster thiei liclongs in his class. It is a class not to be tolerated in James Millikin Uni¬ versity.
Posters are the sole property of the organization for which they are made. Ihat organization will have no use for lliem after the event which they adver¬ tise. Ask for a poster if you want it— don't steal it.
Last year the poster thieves were at least considerate enough to leave the poster up until after the advertised tvent. This year, it seems, the thieves are not even considerate. To work on a poster three days and have it up three hours, is, to say the least, esasp- erating.
Posters are hung in Millikin corri¬ dors to announce attractively coming- events. They are not made to deco¬ rate fraternity houses, or private rooms or one's memory book.
Unless the students of Millikin real¬ ize this; unless the posters are treated with respect, the Poster Union will strike. That will mean a posterless Millikin.
Would you like it?
Dramatic Club
Removes Debt
Financial Success of Homecoming
Play Allows Council to Meet
Outstanding Bills
The burden of debt which the Dra¬ matic Council assumed at the begin¬ ning of the college year was removed by the financial success of the Home¬ coming pla3', "Card Learns," the pro¬ duction selected this year for the re¬ turn of the old grads and former stu¬ dents, played to a capacity audience. Every seat in the auditorium was sola and considcrai)lc standing room as well.
Choruses Feature The two choruses, the "home brew" and "telephone girls," were enthus¬ iastically received. The former com¬ posed of Jirna Pritchett, leader; Dor¬ ies Stutzman, Nellora IJoughton, Faye Coffey, Virginia Dawson, Eulalia Mul¬ lins and Kathryn Freeman, was re¬ markable for its originality and beauty The dancers were graceful and well trained, th ballet 'almost professional m its perfection. The telephone girls made a striking picture with their costumes of telephone cord, green ana black, with little caps of the same col¬ ors perched on the side of their heads, the girls each had bobbed hair ana were all of the same size. Imelda 3loran, as leader, was especially charming. The other members of the chorus were Ethel Jury, Janet Humph¬ rey, Helen Hayes, Sydney Tabor, Evelyn Rankin, Janet Grieves, Mar¬ guerite ?\ioran, Helen Holdaway, Mar¬ joe Wilson and Louise Geen. Both choruses were enthusiastically encoreu and the home brew chorus added to (Continued on page 6)
On the Way
Nov. 17—Normal at Millikin.
Nov. 19—Rhondda Male Chorus.
Nov 22—Lowell L. Townsend Piano Recital.
Nov. 24—Deans' Conference at Mil¬ likin.
Nov. 25—Lambda Phi Delta Thanks¬ giving vespers at Kaeuper Hall.
Nov. 29—Thanksgiving Day. Brad¬ ley at Peoria.
Dec. 13—Christmas vespers.
Dec. 13—Jan. 2—Christmas Recess.
Welsh Chorus
Gains Interest
Rhondda Singers in Millikin Auditor¬ ium Nov. 19—Well Known Male "Voices
Milhkin's traditionally enthusiastic support of her men's glee club has led Director Townsend to believe that the students and. others would be inter¬ ested m hearing outside men's choral organizations, so he has arranged to present the Rhondda Welsh male chorus m the auditorium on Monday evening, November 19.
Internationally Known
The Rhondda Chorus is an excep¬ tionally line one, having won the high¬ est honors in contest with fifty-three other choruses at the International AJusic Festival in i'lttsburgh not long ago. Although choral singing has noi until recent years been considered ser¬ iously in the United States, and even yet is not given the attention it de¬ serves from its position of one of the Highest and at the same time one of the most enjoyable of musical forms, it has reached its fullest development in an English speaking country. Great Britain. The supremac}^ of Great Britain in choral work has never been challenged from the time of Handel and the first production of The Mes¬ siah, to the present day, which has given us such interesting choral com¬ posers as Edward Elgar and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, whose works have been used by the Decatur Oratorio choir several times.
Welsh Choruses Pre-eminent
In the British Isles themselves the Welsh arc conceded to have the best choruses. The Welsh male voice, es¬ pecially the tenor, which is the sine qua non of good choral work, seems peculiarly adapted to chorus work, and the production of a large, resonant, organ-like cpiality of tone in ensemble. The Welsh sing because of a native (Continued on page 6)
Survey Shows Men Excel in Type of Reading
Literary Digest and American Maga¬ zines Head List of Student Favorites
For several generations of Millikin¬ ites, the women have triumphantly Dorne the banner of high scholarship, out the result of a recent survey oi student magazine favorites challenges their superlorit3^ Of the twenty-four copies of distinctly good magazmes lound in the fraternity and sorority nouses, just twice as many were read by men as by women. Since the amount of reading was found to be just the same, the sorrowful conclu¬ sion is that the bulk of the girls' read¬ ing lies in such magazines as the Am¬ erican, Good Housekeeping, and Fash¬ ionable Dress.
The most popular magazine is the Literary Digest, with the American a close second. Whether the Digest reading is due to sheer intellectual de¬ light or is a concession to the so-called high-brow literature is an interesting question. After these two favorites come a host of magazines liked equal¬ ly well: Good Housekeeping, Mentor, .Atlantic Monthly, Scribncrs, Cosmo¬ politan, and the Saturday Evening Post.
The individual lists remind one of the little girl who, when she's good, she's very, very good, but when she's bad, she's horrid, except in this case, it's the men who are so temperamen¬ tal. The list highest in quality and the one most poverty stricken come from fr;'.ternities. One of the most illuminating fraternity lists is this: Literary Digest, Atlantic Monthly, Alumni Journal, Whiz-Bang, Saturday Evening Post, American, and Ku Klux Klan paper.
Literary Digest was found in four fraternity houses and the American and Saturday Evening Post in three. The girls have no decided favorite, their interest being distributed equally among Literary Digest, American, and Good Housekeeping. The Satur¬ day Evening Post appeared in one of the sorority houses, and the Woman's Home Companion in a fraternity house.
Pi Mu Theta
Bazaar Dec. 1
For Benefit of All Millikin Girls- Start Now Preparing Your Entries
The Pi Mu Theta Bazaar for the benefit of all Millikin girls is to be held Saturday, December 1, at Augustine and Oplinger's Optical Shop, 250 N. Water street.
Each year Pi Mu Theta under the direction of the Student Service Bu¬ reau chairman, offers the girls this opportunity for earning monej'.
It is time to begin now, if you can make anything that will sell at a ba¬ zaar. You may enter home made can¬ dies, bakery goods, salads, and sand¬ wiches. Perhaps you would rather sew and enter fancy work, aprons, and handkerchiefs. Or if you are talented and make any of the lovely art gifts, you may do wonders with just a few daubs of paint.
The only thing that Pi Mu Theta asks for this service is an entrance fee of twenty-five cents, .\fter that 'is paid all the money from your things that are sold goes to you. Of course, you must set your own price on each article that you enter. This is worth your time and thought. Take advan¬ tage of it!
Then, there is another side of it. li you are going to buy Christmas gifts, come and look the girls' things over. Maybe you will find just what you want. There is sure to be a great variety of lovely gifts reasonably pric¬ ed. The date is Saturday, Decembei 1; the place is Augustine & Oplinger, 250 N. Water street.
Alpha Chi Omega Won First Prize in Annual Parade
Exhibition and Sale of Art Guild
Exhibition Held First Two Weeks in
December—Sale Just Before
Christmas
Definite plans for the fourth annual exhibition and sale of the Art Guild are now under way. This is the big¬ gest undertaking of the organization and everyone is putting forth his best efforts to make it a success.
The exhibition will be the first two weeks in December in connection with the Art and Crafts Guild of De¬ catur. This exhibit will consist of larger and more elaborate works done by advanced students. It will include pottery, clay modeling, batik, metal (Contiinued on page 3)
Mary Handhn Heads the Home Economics Club
Officers Elected and Plans for Ensu¬ ing Year Laid at Recent Meet¬ ing of Household Arts Women
The officers for the Home Econom¬ ics Club were elected last Thursday night at the regular meeting. The officers for the coming year are:
President—Mary Handlin.
Vice-president—Phyllis Valentine.
Secretarj^—Elizabeth Henry.
Treasurer—Helen Armstrong.
The next meeting will be Thursday, November 22, at 7 o'clock. It will be a social meeting, to which all girls interested are invited. An interesting program including a short play will be given. It is planned to have meet ings every other Thursday.
Many Decorate for Homecoming
Decorations Elaborate and Original
—Great Interest Evidenced by
Townspeople
Homecoming decorations this year were more elaborate and more in evi¬ dence than ever before. The houses of townspeople out West Main and West Wood streets boasted blue and white crepe paper streamers occasion¬ ally, and many "Beat Wesleyan" signs. The downtown store windows contained football backgrounds and placards announcing the game.
Fraternity and sorority houses out¬ did themselves in an effort to por¬ tray the spirit of the day. .\\l the old grads emerging from the Homecom¬ ing play Friday night were greeted with a brilliantly lighted "Welcome" above the Teke porch, and lovely cob¬ web effects over the Teke and Millikin crests. The Kappa Delts had their brightly lighted pin raised on high to guide the brothers, and attractive blue and white spiral decorations around the large porch. Tri Delts, too, had (Continued on page 6)
"Prayer of Our Alma Mater" Prize
Winning Float—K. D.'s and
Seniors Second, Third
Alpha Chi Omega won first prize in the annual liomccoming parade by presenting what was judged the best float representing the Millikin Home¬ coming spirit, artistically rendered and with originality. "The Prayer of Our Alma Mater" was the very appropriate idea which the Alpha Chi group put into their float. The winning float was a white statute group represent¬ ing the spirit of Alma Mater on a fluted column, while grouped around her were ,\.rt, Literature, Science and Industry. The judges proclaimed the float a splendidly worked out piece of art and originality with a real spirit of MiUikin behind it.
Members of the sorority who com¬ prised the float were:
Literature—Miss Mary Foran. Art—Miss Dories .Stutzman. Science—Miss Bonnie Regan. Commerce—Miss (icneva Porter. -Music—Aliss Marjory Dobson. Spirit of Millikin—Mrs Charles Lee. Kappa Delta Chi was awarded sec¬ ond prize with the float of a monstrous chicken before which was broken blue and white eggs. The Senior class' "Old ICnglish Homecoming" repre¬ sented by four very "Old Englishy" looking people riding in a sedate old coach driven l)y two very prim coach¬ men, all dressed in colonial costumes, was awarded third honors.
Honorable mention went to Tau Kappa Epsilon's ''Toonerville Trolley" which was the hit of the parade; the student council's "Keep on the Greens," Lambda Phi Delta's "Birth¬ day Cake," and .Sigma Alpha lota's "God of Pan.''
.\ number of very clever ideas were worked into the floats and the origin¬ ality of some coupled with the Milli¬ kin llomecoming spirit made it the best Homecoming parade .Millikin has had for several years. All organiza¬ tions entered floats and took a deep interest in putting the affair over. All who saw the parade were delighted with it and favorable comment was drawn from all those who lined the streets and watched the long line go by. Headed by a few frolicsome clowns, then the J. M. U. Band, after which came Dr. A. R. Taylor and sev¬ eral members of the faculty in cars, the floats came next and student cars ended the line. The old grads coming back certainly had the treat of their lives for the parade put on this year by the student body was one that prob¬ ably more than equalled any one in the past.
McDavid Contest Tryouts Today
Freshmen Eligible for Public Speak¬ ing Prize—Preliminaries This Afternoon
Preliminary tryouts for the Horace McDavid prize speaking contest will be held this afternoon from 1:30 to 5:30. The contest is open to any freshman or to anyone enrolled in be¬ ginning public speaking classes. The judges for the tryouts are Professor Carroll, Ilelen Lobenstein, and Sam Smith. The final contest will be held one week from today.
The Horace W. McDavid contest is a yearly affair competing for a prize of $50 offered by the Millikin alumnus and prominent Decatur attorney whose name it bears. The prize is awarded at the discretion of the judges to one, two or three people. The judges for the final contest will be selected by the debating council in its ineeting to¬ night.

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Normal vs. Millikin
at Decatur Saturday
THE DECATURIAN
Hear the Welsh
Chorus Monday
Volume XX—No. 10
The James MiUikin University, Decatur, Illinois, November 15, 1923
Price $2.00 a Year
Millikin Given Six Delegates For Conference
Quadrennial Convention of Student Volunteer Movement Held in Indianapolis During Dec.
The Ninth International Conven¬ tion of the Student Volunteer Move- nicnt which will be held at the Cadle Tabernacle, Indianapolis, Indiana, bc- crinning on Friday afternoon, Decem¬ ber 28, 1923 at 2:30 p. m., and closing on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 1, 1924, will be attended by a delegation of six or seven students from Milli¬ kin. These delegates will be chosen ill a mass meeting of students to be held in the near future.
The conference, an international af¬ fair, drawing students and noted men and women from all over the world, occurs only once in a student genera¬ tion—every four years. Irma Voight, (lean of women at the University of Ohio, prominent in the Y. W. C. A., states that it is the experience of a student's life time. Millikin is having trouble restricting her delegation to six, the number allotted to her. Previous Conventions The first convention was held in Cleveland in 1891 with 680 delegates representing 51 institutions in attend¬ ance. In the seven sul)sequent con¬ ventions the movement increased in power and size until at the last con¬ vention held in 1920 at Des Moines, 6,890 delegates were present represent¬ ing 949 institutions.
Purpose of Conventions The purpose of the convention is to emphasize the solidarity of mankind and the interdependence of all nations and races; to present Christ as the hope of the race, demonstrated I)y the transformation wrought in individual (Continued on page 6)
Poster Thefts Rouse Ire of Poster Union
Stealing of University Posters Will Not Be Tolerated—Strike Threatened
Indignant over the poster vandalism which exists in the university the pos¬ ter union has thnatencd to strike.
Posters cost in money and time. TIil' abduction of posters, which some peo¬ ple think is a clever trick, is plain, downright stealing. Who has a high opinion of the person who goes the I'ounds of coat pockets in the locker rooms, taking what loose change he can find? No one! The poster thiei liclongs in his class. It is a class not to be tolerated in James Millikin Uni¬ versity.
Posters are the sole property of the organization for which they are made. Ihat organization will have no use for lliem after the event which they adver¬ tise. Ask for a poster if you want it— don't steal it.
Last year the poster thieves were at least considerate enough to leave the poster up until after the advertised tvent. This year, it seems, the thieves are not even considerate. To work on a poster three days and have it up three hours, is, to say the least, esasp- erating.
Posters are hung in Millikin corri¬ dors to announce attractively coming- events. They are not made to deco¬ rate fraternity houses, or private rooms or one's memory book.
Unless the students of Millikin real¬ ize this; unless the posters are treated with respect, the Poster Union will strike. That will mean a posterless Millikin.
Would you like it?
Dramatic Club
Removes Debt
Financial Success of Homecoming
Play Allows Council to Meet
Outstanding Bills
The burden of debt which the Dra¬ matic Council assumed at the begin¬ ning of the college year was removed by the financial success of the Home¬ coming pla3', "Card Learns," the pro¬ duction selected this year for the re¬ turn of the old grads and former stu¬ dents, played to a capacity audience. Every seat in the auditorium was sola and considcrai)lc standing room as well.
Choruses Feature The two choruses, the "home brew" and "telephone girls," were enthus¬ iastically received. The former com¬ posed of Jirna Pritchett, leader; Dor¬ ies Stutzman, Nellora IJoughton, Faye Coffey, Virginia Dawson, Eulalia Mul¬ lins and Kathryn Freeman, was re¬ markable for its originality and beauty The dancers were graceful and well trained, th ballet 'almost professional m its perfection. The telephone girls made a striking picture with their costumes of telephone cord, green ana black, with little caps of the same col¬ ors perched on the side of their heads, the girls each had bobbed hair ana were all of the same size. Imelda 3loran, as leader, was especially charming. The other members of the chorus were Ethel Jury, Janet Humph¬ rey, Helen Hayes, Sydney Tabor, Evelyn Rankin, Janet Grieves, Mar¬ guerite ?\ioran, Helen Holdaway, Mar¬ joe Wilson and Louise Geen. Both choruses were enthusiastically encoreu and the home brew chorus added to (Continued on page 6)
On the Way
Nov. 17—Normal at Millikin.
Nov. 19—Rhondda Male Chorus.
Nov 22—Lowell L. Townsend Piano Recital.
Nov. 24—Deans' Conference at Mil¬ likin.
Nov. 25—Lambda Phi Delta Thanks¬ giving vespers at Kaeuper Hall.
Nov. 29—Thanksgiving Day. Brad¬ ley at Peoria.
Dec. 13—Christmas vespers.
Dec. 13—Jan. 2—Christmas Recess.
Welsh Chorus
Gains Interest
Rhondda Singers in Millikin Auditor¬ ium Nov. 19—Well Known Male "Voices
Milhkin's traditionally enthusiastic support of her men's glee club has led Director Townsend to believe that the students and. others would be inter¬ ested m hearing outside men's choral organizations, so he has arranged to present the Rhondda Welsh male chorus m the auditorium on Monday evening, November 19.
Internationally Known
The Rhondda Chorus is an excep¬ tionally line one, having won the high¬ est honors in contest with fifty-three other choruses at the International AJusic Festival in i'lttsburgh not long ago. Although choral singing has noi until recent years been considered ser¬ iously in the United States, and even yet is not given the attention it de¬ serves from its position of one of the Highest and at the same time one of the most enjoyable of musical forms, it has reached its fullest development in an English speaking country. Great Britain. The supremac}^ of Great Britain in choral work has never been challenged from the time of Handel and the first production of The Mes¬ siah, to the present day, which has given us such interesting choral com¬ posers as Edward Elgar and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, whose works have been used by the Decatur Oratorio choir several times.
Welsh Choruses Pre-eminent
In the British Isles themselves the Welsh arc conceded to have the best choruses. The Welsh male voice, es¬ pecially the tenor, which is the sine qua non of good choral work, seems peculiarly adapted to chorus work, and the production of a large, resonant, organ-like cpiality of tone in ensemble. The Welsh sing because of a native (Continued on page 6)
Survey Shows Men Excel in Type of Reading
Literary Digest and American Maga¬ zines Head List of Student Favorites
For several generations of Millikin¬ ites, the women have triumphantly Dorne the banner of high scholarship, out the result of a recent survey oi student magazine favorites challenges their superlorit3^ Of the twenty-four copies of distinctly good magazmes lound in the fraternity and sorority nouses, just twice as many were read by men as by women. Since the amount of reading was found to be just the same, the sorrowful conclu¬ sion is that the bulk of the girls' read¬ ing lies in such magazines as the Am¬ erican, Good Housekeeping, and Fash¬ ionable Dress.
The most popular magazine is the Literary Digest, with the American a close second. Whether the Digest reading is due to sheer intellectual de¬ light or is a concession to the so-called high-brow literature is an interesting question. After these two favorites come a host of magazines liked equal¬ ly well: Good Housekeeping, Mentor, .Atlantic Monthly, Scribncrs, Cosmo¬ politan, and the Saturday Evening Post.
The individual lists remind one of the little girl who, when she's good, she's very, very good, but when she's bad, she's horrid, except in this case, it's the men who are so temperamen¬ tal. The list highest in quality and the one most poverty stricken come from fr;'.ternities. One of the most illuminating fraternity lists is this: Literary Digest, Atlantic Monthly, Alumni Journal, Whiz-Bang, Saturday Evening Post, American, and Ku Klux Klan paper.
Literary Digest was found in four fraternity houses and the American and Saturday Evening Post in three. The girls have no decided favorite, their interest being distributed equally among Literary Digest, American, and Good Housekeeping. The Satur¬ day Evening Post appeared in one of the sorority houses, and the Woman's Home Companion in a fraternity house.
Pi Mu Theta
Bazaar Dec. 1
For Benefit of All Millikin Girls- Start Now Preparing Your Entries
The Pi Mu Theta Bazaar for the benefit of all Millikin girls is to be held Saturday, December 1, at Augustine and Oplinger's Optical Shop, 250 N. Water street.
Each year Pi Mu Theta under the direction of the Student Service Bu¬ reau chairman, offers the girls this opportunity for earning monej'.
It is time to begin now, if you can make anything that will sell at a ba¬ zaar. You may enter home made can¬ dies, bakery goods, salads, and sand¬ wiches. Perhaps you would rather sew and enter fancy work, aprons, and handkerchiefs. Or if you are talented and make any of the lovely art gifts, you may do wonders with just a few daubs of paint.
The only thing that Pi Mu Theta asks for this service is an entrance fee of twenty-five cents, .\fter that 'is paid all the money from your things that are sold goes to you. Of course, you must set your own price on each article that you enter. This is worth your time and thought. Take advan¬ tage of it!
Then, there is another side of it. li you are going to buy Christmas gifts, come and look the girls' things over. Maybe you will find just what you want. There is sure to be a great variety of lovely gifts reasonably pric¬ ed. The date is Saturday, Decembei 1; the place is Augustine & Oplinger, 250 N. Water street.
Alpha Chi Omega Won First Prize in Annual Parade
Exhibition and Sale of Art Guild
Exhibition Held First Two Weeks in
December—Sale Just Before
Christmas
Definite plans for the fourth annual exhibition and sale of the Art Guild are now under way. This is the big¬ gest undertaking of the organization and everyone is putting forth his best efforts to make it a success.
The exhibition will be the first two weeks in December in connection with the Art and Crafts Guild of De¬ catur. This exhibit will consist of larger and more elaborate works done by advanced students. It will include pottery, clay modeling, batik, metal (Contiinued on page 3)
Mary Handhn Heads the Home Economics Club
Officers Elected and Plans for Ensu¬ ing Year Laid at Recent Meet¬ ing of Household Arts Women
The officers for the Home Econom¬ ics Club were elected last Thursday night at the regular meeting. The officers for the coming year are:
President—Mary Handlin.
Vice-president—Phyllis Valentine.
Secretarj^—Elizabeth Henry.
Treasurer—Helen Armstrong.
The next meeting will be Thursday, November 22, at 7 o'clock. It will be a social meeting, to which all girls interested are invited. An interesting program including a short play will be given. It is planned to have meet ings every other Thursday.
Many Decorate for Homecoming
Decorations Elaborate and Original
—Great Interest Evidenced by
Townspeople
Homecoming decorations this year were more elaborate and more in evi¬ dence than ever before. The houses of townspeople out West Main and West Wood streets boasted blue and white crepe paper streamers occasion¬ ally, and many "Beat Wesleyan" signs. The downtown store windows contained football backgrounds and placards announcing the game.
Fraternity and sorority houses out¬ did themselves in an effort to por¬ tray the spirit of the day. .\\l the old grads emerging from the Homecom¬ ing play Friday night were greeted with a brilliantly lighted "Welcome" above the Teke porch, and lovely cob¬ web effects over the Teke and Millikin crests. The Kappa Delts had their brightly lighted pin raised on high to guide the brothers, and attractive blue and white spiral decorations around the large porch. Tri Delts, too, had (Continued on page 6)
"Prayer of Our Alma Mater" Prize
Winning Float—K. D.'s and
Seniors Second, Third
Alpha Chi Omega won first prize in the annual liomccoming parade by presenting what was judged the best float representing the Millikin Home¬ coming spirit, artistically rendered and with originality. "The Prayer of Our Alma Mater" was the very appropriate idea which the Alpha Chi group put into their float. The winning float was a white statute group represent¬ ing the spirit of Alma Mater on a fluted column, while grouped around her were ,\.rt, Literature, Science and Industry. The judges proclaimed the float a splendidly worked out piece of art and originality with a real spirit of MiUikin behind it.
Members of the sorority who com¬ prised the float were:
Literature—Miss Mary Foran. Art—Miss Dories .Stutzman. Science—Miss Bonnie Regan. Commerce—Miss (icneva Porter. -Music—Aliss Marjory Dobson. Spirit of Millikin—Mrs Charles Lee. Kappa Delta Chi was awarded sec¬ ond prize with the float of a monstrous chicken before which was broken blue and white eggs. The Senior class' "Old ICnglish Homecoming" repre¬ sented by four very "Old Englishy" looking people riding in a sedate old coach driven l)y two very prim coach¬ men, all dressed in colonial costumes, was awarded third honors.
Honorable mention went to Tau Kappa Epsilon's ''Toonerville Trolley" which was the hit of the parade; the student council's "Keep on the Greens," Lambda Phi Delta's "Birth¬ day Cake," and .Sigma Alpha lota's "God of Pan.''
.\ number of very clever ideas were worked into the floats and the origin¬ ality of some coupled with the Milli¬ kin llomecoming spirit made it the best Homecoming parade .Millikin has had for several years. All organiza¬ tions entered floats and took a deep interest in putting the affair over. All who saw the parade were delighted with it and favorable comment was drawn from all those who lined the streets and watched the long line go by. Headed by a few frolicsome clowns, then the J. M. U. Band, after which came Dr. A. R. Taylor and sev¬ eral members of the faculty in cars, the floats came next and student cars ended the line. The old grads coming back certainly had the treat of their lives for the parade put on this year by the student body was one that prob¬ ably more than equalled any one in the past.
McDavid Contest Tryouts Today
Freshmen Eligible for Public Speak¬ ing Prize—Preliminaries This Afternoon
Preliminary tryouts for the Horace McDavid prize speaking contest will be held this afternoon from 1:30 to 5:30. The contest is open to any freshman or to anyone enrolled in be¬ ginning public speaking classes. The judges for the tryouts are Professor Carroll, Ilelen Lobenstein, and Sam Smith. The final contest will be held one week from today.
The Horace W. McDavid contest is a yearly affair competing for a prize of $50 offered by the Millikin alumnus and prominent Decatur attorney whose name it bears. The prize is awarded at the discretion of the judges to one, two or three people. The judges for the final contest will be selected by the debating council in its ineeting to¬ night.